In college-level forensic competitions, the three major weekly magazines, "U.S. News and World Report,""Time," and "Newsweek," are taking a beating. Students are purposely looking for specialized sources; they firmly believe that judges look down on the use of these weekly publications. Indeed, judges do seem to be rewarding students for the number of sources as well as their uniqueness. The advantage to this trend is that students are learning the importance of an argument well-grounded in diverse sources. Furthermore, students are learning to do computer searches for unique sources, which improves their research abilities and prepares them for future careers in business and law. However, the disadvantage to this trend is that younger college students do not always have the background and skills to understand and critically evaluate the sources they find on the computer. A snowball of bad arguments is made when beginners end up offering contradictory testimony and information from slanted or biased sources. Participants and judges must return to focusing on the arguments themselves and not on the number and uniqueness of the sources. Emphasizing the novelty in documentation at the risk of good analysis and communication skills would only be detrimental to the philosophical purposes of the activity. (TB)